Don't get me wrong but Slackware is kinda "bloated"
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I suspect (though will accept that I could be wrong) that few here would have understood what you were trying to say at first glance.
Due to my bad command of English language, alas I must admit that I am not among the (supposedly happy) few. I just hope that I'm not losing something major because of my lack of understanding
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-15-2014 at 06:45 AM.
Ok, I thought about this a bit more and realised that I have seen the adjective version used. I have heard people refer to boutique hotels. i still think it isn't commonly used but whatever!
@moisespedro: No I am not from Norway. I am English/Irish (Ruarí is an Irish name). I have a Norwegian last name because I took my wife's name after marriage because I'm a hipster (actually because she seemed more attached to it then I was to my old "maiden" name).
I apologise for keeping the current off-topic dialogue progressing, but I just remember hearing the word often in Australia as well, such as boutique beer.
1.
a small store selling fashionable clothes or accessories.
2.
a business that serves a sophisticated or specialized clientele.
"a small investment boutique"
I ain't nuttin if not sofistcated.
Last edited by Germany_chris; 09-15-2014 at 07:51 AM.
Not just you. To my uncouth ears, "Boutique" has an air of pretentiousness about it, especially so when used as an adjective, and in-front of 'beer' sounds positively absurd.
It's the sort of word only marketing-men would use as an adjective. Everyone else would be quite content to use 'bespoke'.
As far as I know the word boutique originates from the ancient Greek αποθήκη whose first attested usage is by Θουκυδίδης (Thucydide). This word was written apotheca in Latin then became in Italian bottega, in Occitan botica (also botiga and boutigo), in Spanish botica and bodegan in Catalan botiga then bodega, in ancient French boticle then bouticle, and nowadays in French and lately English boutique.
The German word apotheke comes directly from αποθήκη as well as the French word apothicaire.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-15-2014 at 08:36 AM.
Maybe a bespoke taste, but pack something bootilicious with a full front side bus into a dirndl and I am liable to get bloated with a desire to head to a boutique hotel to ride something other than a bike.
Maybe another bespoke taste, but I find Slackware bloated in all the right places.
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